[SECURITY] [DSA 2283-1] krb5-appl security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2283-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
July 25, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : krb5-appl
Vulnerability : programming error
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2011-1526

Tim Zingelmann discovered that due an incorrect configure script the
kerborised FTP server failed to set the effective GID correctly,
resulting in privilege escalation.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1-1.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your krb5-appl packages.

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